For about a year, an algal bloom in South Australian waters has had devastating effects on marine life. At my local beach, ...
T he blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling ...
If you were a bee, how would you choose a flower to land on? You might go to the most beautiful one, as pollination biologists have long suggested that flowers with striking colors attract pollinators ...
The effect was first described by Soviet psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik in 1927. She was inspired to study the phenomenon after her professor, prominent psychologist Kurt Lewin, noticed that a waiter ...
The driest place in North America is covered with an explosion of wildflowers right now. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with ecologist Tiffany Pereira about Death Valley's superbloom.